Rosario Dawson

Prior to being literally plucked off the street to star in Larry Clark's controversial "Kids" (1995), actress Rosario Dawson exhibited little interest in what became her eventual career. The 15-year-o...
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Prince staged a surprise Valentine's Day concert on Saturday (14Feb15) for a star-studded crowd, including Beyonce and Jay Z. The Purple Rain hitmaker held the impromptu show to honour the 30th anniversary of basketball star Michael Jordon's iconic Jordan sportswear brand, and many stars turned up at the Wall Street venue to celebrate the occasion.
Prince and his band 3rdEyeGirl performed hits such as 1999, Purple Rain, and When Doves Cry, to the crowd which included Queen Latifah, Beyonce, Jay Z, Chris Rock, Rosario Dawson, and Jordan himself, who all joined the pop star on stage to dance along as the gig came to an end.

Actress Rosario Dawson, musician Harry Belafonte and fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier have been honoured at the annual amfAR gala in New York City for their continued work in the fight against AIDS. Award presenters Chris Rock, Whoopi Goldberg and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour joined guests including Heidi Klum, Naomi Campbell, Paris Hilton, Kendall Jenner and Karlie Kloss for Wednesday's (11Feb15) bash at Cipriani Wall Street for the traditional kick off for New York Fashion Week.
During her acceptance speech at the black tie event, Sin City star Dawson hailed her adopted uncle Frank, who has been living with HIV since 1984, as her "hero" and dedicated her prize to her mother Isabel Celeste, as she was celebrating her birthday that night, while Belafonte paid tribute to amfAR co-founder Elizabeth Taylor, thanking charity bosses for helping him to make a difference, revealing, "We have a new and enlightened global community; we are now on the threshold of breakthroughs that never existed before we stepped into the fray."
The event, which featured a performance from Dame Shirley Bassey and an art auction, raised $2.2 million (£1.4 million) for the cause.

Actress Rosario Dawson and her mum are celebrating Christmas with a cross-country road trip. The Crash star will celebrate Christmas Day on the move from Los Angeles to the other side of the U.S. in North Carolina in honour of her late grandmother.
She explains, "She passed a few years ago and I miss her a lot. We gave all her Christmas stuff to my godchildren in North Carolina. This is the year we're going to road trip so we could get all that stuff and bring it home."
Dawson gushes over the trove of Christmas items that her grandmother collected, and adds, "There's the old-school plastic tree that I've been putting together since I was a little kid. It's so sparse now... She had every little knick-knack. You could fill up the whole house with everything. She had really beautiful old ornaments, too."

"It was just kinda awesome. This is what I do for a living sometimes - I go to work and make out with really beautiful, smart, funny, cool women." Rosario Dawson enjoyed locking lips with comedienne/actress Jenny Slate for a New York Times Magazine video project.

"She used to lick me when I was little, when I would act up, if I was being overly precocious... It was incredibly embarrassing and quite disgusting and I'd be like, 'Ew!' And she'd be like, 'You came out of my vagina, so it's fine!'" Sin City star Rosario Dawson's mother used to discipline her daughter by licking her face.

Rosario Dawson and Tracie Thoms ganged up on director Quentin Tarantino after he insisted they weren't right for his Grindhouse movie Death Proof. The actresses had become friends while shooting RENT together and rather than getting glum after Tarantino passed on them, they decided to work together on changing his mind.
In a Reddit.com webchat with fans, Dawson reveals, "I auditioned for it, didn't get the part, and Tracie auditioned for it, and didn't necessarily get the part, and both of us were like, 'Aw HELL NAW, just not okay if we don't get to do it!'
"We had become besties on RENT, because we were both newbies and spent a lot of time together, so we sat down and watched every Tarantino movie back to back, and we rehearsed the HELL out of our scene, and we asked if we could go down to meet with him again, and we flew together to New York, and it was supposed to be my audition but I brought her.
"We ended up getting the role, and had a blast on it."

"It's a thing... There's something going on with him and shoes, and that's why I ended up with KY Jelly in my shoes when my eyes were closed - you don't want to be vulnerable on a Quentin Tarantino set, because you will get got by pranksters! You gotta keep your game face on at all times." Rosario Dawson confirms pal Quentin Tarantino is a prankster with a foot fetish.

Actresses Rosario Dawson and Jenny Slate have locked lips onscreen as part of a new video series, called 9 Kisses. The stars are showcased in the New York Times Magazine's feature, which pairs 18 of the year's best actors in nine different scenes that lead up to a kiss.
Dawson and Slate's scenario takes place in the back of a convertible, as they count down the seconds until the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve. They then kiss and playfully embrace each other.
British actors David Oyelowo and Timothy Spall also share a same-sex kiss during an arm wrestling match. Spall plants a smooch on Oyelowo to distract him and win the power challenge.
Other duos who agreed to lock lips for the publication's Great Performers issue include Benedict Cumberbatch and Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern and Steve Carell, Shailene Woodley and Jack O'Connell, Kristen Stewart and Chadwick Boseman, Patricia Arquette and Jason Schwartzman, Julianne Moore and John Lithgow, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Miles Teller.

Chris Rock has praised Rosario Dawson's maternal instincts amid rumours she has adopted a 12-year-old girl. Reports surfaced on Tuesday (02Dec14) that the Sin City star adopted a daughter in October (14), and while Dawson has refused to comment on the speculation, her Top Five co-star and close pal Rock has hinted the rumour is true.
He tells E! News, "Yeah it's so great, I met her. She's lovely. Rosario's going to be an amazing mother. She already is an amazing mother. She's got an amazing mother, so it rubs off."
Dawson, who was adopted by her stepfather at the age of one, is currently single. She split from director Danny Boyle in 2013.

Actress Rosario Dawson is refusing to comment on reports she adopted a 12-year-old girl earlier this year (14). The Sin City star hit headlines on Tuesday (02Dec14), when editors at the New York Post reported she had become a mum to a daughter in October (14).
In a segment on U.S. breakfast show Today on Wednesday (03Dec14), Dawson was asked about the happy news, but she was not willing to talk about the rumours, saying, "I very rarely talk about tabloid speculation and this is not an exception. My family is incredibly private...
"Believe me, if anyone were to talk about this, including myself... We're going to keep mum's the word. I'm really glad to be here talking about (new movie) Top Five, so thank you."

Co-starred in "Shattered Glass," based on the true story of New Republic journalist Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen)

Summary

Prior to being literally plucked off the street to star in Larry Clark's controversial "Kids" (1995), actress Rosario Dawson exhibited little interest in what became her eventual career. The 15-year-old was discovered on the front steps of her building by the director, a life-changing event for a young girl still trying to figure out what life had to offer outside the confines of New York City. Ever since her breakthrough performance, which attracted the attention of numerous critics, as well as Hollywood, Dawson ran the film gamut, starring in such critically-appreciated independents like "He Got Game" (1998) and "25th Hour" (2002), and Hollywood duds like "The Adventures of Pluto Nash" (2002) and "Alexander" (2004). But her exotic good looks - she had an usual mix of Cuban, Puerto Rican, Irish and Native American descent - gave Dawson the opportunity to explore a variety of roles without being typecast, leading to films as divergent as "Rent" (2005), "Sin City" (2005) and "Grindhouse" (2007) - resulting in a vibrant career in which she was able to chart her own path.

Education

"Ray had Maalox on his breath. He had this motion sickness thing, and I'm doing the nasty to him. I'm like, 'This is beautiful.'" – Dawson on her Ferris wheel-set love scene with Ray Allen in "He Got Game, "quoted in Details magazine, October 1999

On comparisons to Jennifer Lopez: "It's hard when I'm compared to someone whom I have a likeness to. You don't compare other actresses like that. There's going to be a time when I won't have to be put under someone else or replace someone else. I'm hoping, as our careers expand, people will see the difference and stop comparing us just because we're Puerto Rican, which is ridiculous." – Dawson quoted in Austin's Insite magazine, November 1999

"I’m very fortunate in that all I ever have to do is do research and travel and meet new people and explore different viewpoints. I’m constantly putting myself in other people’s shoes and constantly challenged to go past my own prejudices. I think it’s unfortunate that celebrity has been marred so much by just talking about who people are sleeping with and what lipstick they’re wearing. We have a very unique experience of the world, travelling the way we do and being exposed to other cultures." – Dawson to Empire magazine, 2003

"For a long time it felt like I snuck in and someone was going to figure me out. It wasn't like I've wanted to be an actor my whole life. I didn't have any particular aspiration to be hugely famous or be in magazines all the time." – Dawson to Movieline's Hollywood Life, February/March 2005